Hollyburn Mountain Touchy Conditions

 

I remember this day being rather short, stormy, and very touchy snowpack. The avalanche danger was hovering around considerable at tree line and alpine. I was the first person putting in a new skin track on top of an older one and despite there being a few cars in the overnight lot, none went to the usual entrance that avoids the steep terrain so they must have left their cars here and ventured elsewhere?

Tree skiing looking fine as I ascended through the forest

Fog rolling in and it was getting wet also 

The ridge on the watershed boundary

Immediately at tree line and anywhere without an obvious canopy above, the snowpack was very touchy. I released a few small slabs as seen in the pictures below 

Always a humbling feeling when the snow starts sliding and I was careful to always keep myself in a position out of harms way if anything bigger were to come down